Zlatý glóbus za najlepší mužský herecký výkon (komédia/muzikál) udeľuje Hollywoodska asociácia zahraničných novinárov (HFPA) na ceremónii Zlatých glóbusov od roku 1951. Predtým sa kategória nazývala Najlepší herec a udeľovalo sa v nej od roku 1944. Dnes sa mužské herecké výkony v hlavnej úlohe delia na Najlepší herec v dráme a Najlepší herec v komédii alebo muzikáli.
thumb|right|240px|Rekordman Jack Lemmon ako C.C.Baxter vo filme Byt Prvým komediálnym hercom bol 28. februára 1951 vyhlásený herec a spevák Fred AstaireVýsledky a dátum udeľovania Zlatých glóbusov v roku 1951|Golden Globes, USA 1951 http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_2871050/golden-globes-usa/1951. Najviac cien (tri) získali Jack Lemmon a Robin WilliamsNominácie Jacka Lemmona http://thegoldenglobes.com/nominee/lemmon_jack.html Nominácie Robina Williamsa http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/30085 . Jack Lemmon drží rekord aj v počtu nominácií, získal ich dohromady desať. Cary Grant a Steve Martin pozbierali zhodne päť nominácií, ale žiadnu výhruNominácie Caryho Granta http://thegoldenglobes.com/nominee/grant_cary.html Nominácie Steva Martina http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/30249 .
Víťazi a nominovaní 1950 - 1960 Rok Herec Postava vo filme Názov filmu 1950Fred Astaire Bert KalmarThree Little Words Dan Dailey William 'Bill' Kluggs When Willie Comes Marching Home Harold Lloyd Harold Diddlebock The Sin of Harold Diddlebock 1951 Danny Kaye Jack Martin/Henri Duran On the Riviera Bing Crosby Peter 'Pete' Garvey Here Comes the Groom Gene Kelly Jerry Mulligan An American In Paris 1952 Donald O'Connor Cosmo Brown Spievanie v daždi Danny Kaye Hans Ch. Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Clifton Webb John Philip Sousa Stars and Stripes Forever 1953 David Niven David Slater The Moon Is Blue 1954 James Mason * Norman Maine A Star Is Born 1955 Tom Ewelle Richard Sherman Slamený vdovec 1956 Cantinflas Passepartout Cesta okolo sveta za osemdesiat dní Marlon Brando Sakini The Teahouse of the August Moon Yul Brynner ** Kráľ Mongkut zo Siamu Kráľ a ja Glenn Ford Kpt. Fisby The Teahouse of the August Moon Danny Kaye Hubert Hawkins The Court Jester 1957 Frank Sinatra Joey Evans Pal Joey Maurice Chevalier Claude Chavasse Love in the Afternoon Glenn Ford J. G. Max Siegel Don't Go Near the Water David Niven Godfrey Smith My Man Godfrey Tony Randall Rockwell P. Hunter Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 1958 Danny Kaye S. L. Jacobowsky Me and the Colonel Maurice Chevalier Honoré Lachaille Gigi |- | Clark Gable || James Gannon || Teacher's Pet Cary Grant Philip Adams Indiscreet |- | Louis Jourdan || Gaston Lachaille || Gigi 1959 Jack Lemmon * Jerry ("Dafne") Niekto to rád horúce |- | Clark Gable || Russell Ward || But Not for Me Cary Grant Kpt. Matt T. Sherman Operation Petticoat |- | Dean Martin || Michael Haney || Who Was That Lady? Sidney Poitier Porgy Porgy and Bess |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1960|| style="background:#ed8;" | Jack Lemmon * || style="background:#ed8;" | C. C. Baxter || style="background:#ed8;" | Byt Dirk Bogarde Franz Liszt Song Without End
| Cantinflas || Pepe || Pepe Cary Grant Victor, gróf z Rhyallu The Grass Is Greener |- | Bob Hope || Larry Gilbert || The Facts of Life
1961 - 1970 Rok Herec Postava vo filme Názov filmu 1961 Glenn Ford Dave, the Dude Pocketful of Miracles |- | Fred Astaire || Pogo Poole || The Pleasure of His Company Richard Beymer Tony West Side Story |- | Bob Hope || Adam Niles || Bachelor in Paradise Fred MacMurray Ned Brainard The Absent-Minded Professor |- | rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"| 1962|| style="background:#ed8;" | Marcello Mastroianni * || style="background:#ed8;" | Ferdinando Cefalù || style="background:#ed8;" | Rozvod po taliansky Stephen Boyd Sam Rawlins Billy Rose's Jumbo |- | Jimmy Durante || Anthony 'Pop' Wonder || Billy Rose's Jumbo Cary Grant Philip Shayne That Touch of Mink |- | Charlton Heston || Kpt. Paul MacDougall/Benny the Snatch/rozprávač || The Pigeon That Took Rome Karl Malden Herbie Sommers Gypsy |- | Robert Preston || Harold Hill || Obchodník s hudbou James Stewart Roger Hobbs Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation |- | rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;"| 1963|| style="background:#ed8;" | Alberto Sordi || style="background:#ed8;" | Amedeo Ferretti || style="background:#ed8;" | Il diavolo Albert Finney * Tom Jones Tom Jones |- | James Garner || Henry Tyroon || The Wheeler Dealers Cary Grant Brian Cruikshank Šaráda |- | Jack Lemmon || Nestor Paptu/Lord X || Sladká Irma Jack Lemmon Pán Hogan Under the Yum Yum Tree |- | Frank Sinatra || Alan Barker || Come Blow Your Horn Jonathan Winters Lennie Pike To je ale bláznivý svet |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1964|| style="background:#ed8;" | Rex Harrison ** || style="background:#ed8;" | Henry Higgins || style="background:#ed8;" | My Fair Lady Marcello Mastroianni Domenico Soriano Manželstvo po taliansky |- | Peter Sellers || Inšpektor Jacques Clouseau || Ružový panter Peter Ustinov Arthur Simpson Topkapi |- | Dick Van Dyke || Bert/Pán Dawes Sr. || Mary Poppins 1965 Lee Marvin ** Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn Cat Ballou |- | Jack Lemmon || Profesor Fate/Princ Hapnick || Veľké preteky Jerry Lewis Robert Reed Boeing Boeing |- | Jason Robards || Murray Burns || A Thousand Clowns Alberto Sordi Gróf Emilio Ponticelli Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1966|| style="background:#ed8;" | Alan Arkin * || style="background:#ed8;" | Poručík Rozanov || style="background:#ed8;" | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Alan Bates Jos Jones Georgy Girl |- | Michael Caine || Harry Dean || Gambit Lionel Jeffries Stanley Farquhar The Spy with a Cold Nose |- | Walter Matthau ** || Willie Gingrich || The Fortune Cookie 1967 Richard Harris Kráľ Artuš Camelot |- | Richard Burton || Petruchio || The Taming of the Shrew Rex Harrison Doktor Dolittle Doktor Dolittle |- | Dustin Hoffman * || Benjamin Braddock || Absolvent Ugo Tognazzi Sergio Masini L'immorale |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1968|| style="background:#ed8;" | Ron Moody * || style="background:#ed8;" | Fagin || style="background:#ed8;" | Oliver! Fred Astaire Finian McLonergan Divotvorný hrniec |- | Jack Lemmon || Felix Ungar || The Odd Couple Walter Matthau Oscar Madison The Odd Couple |- | Zero Mostel || Max Bialystock || Producenti 1969 Peter O'Toole * Arthur Chipping Zbohom, pán profesor! |- | Dustin Hoffman || John || John a Mary Lee Marvin Ben Rumson Paint Your Wagon |- | Steve McQueen || Boon Hogganbeck || Kmíni Anthony Quinn Italo Bombolini The Secret of Santa Vittoria |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1970|| style="background:#ed8;" | Albert Finney || style="background:#ed8;" | Ebenezer Scrooge || style="background:#ed8;" | Scrooge|- | Richard Benjamin || Jonathan Balser || Diary of a Mad Housewife|- | Elliott Gould || Trapper John McIntyre || MASH|- | Jack Lemmon || George Kellerman || The Out-of-Towners|- | Donald Sutherland || Hawkeye Pierce || MASH'' Walter Matthau získal za postavu Willieho Gingricha vo filme The Fortune Cookie Oscara, ale v kategórii Najlepší herec vo vedľajšej úloheCeny pre Waltera Matthaua|Awards for Walter Matthau http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/awards.
1971 - 1980 Rok Herec Postava vo filme Názov filmu 1971 Topol * Tevye Fiddler on the Roof Bud Cort Harold Chasen Harold a Maude Dean Jones Professor Dooley The Million Dollar Duck Walter Matthau * Joseph P. Kotcher Kotch Gene Wilder Willy Wonka Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1972 Jack Lemmon Wendell Armbruster Nebožtíci žičia láske Edward Albert Don Baker Butterflies Are Free Charles Grodin Lenny Cantrow The Heartbreak Kid Walter Matthau Pete Pete a Tillie Peter O'Toole Don Quixote de la Mancha/Cervantes Man of La Mancha 1973 George Segal Steve Blackburn Na úrovni Carl Anderson Judáš Jesus Christ Superstar Richard Dreyfuss Curt Henderson Americké graffiti Ted Neeley Ježiš Jesus Christ Superstar Ryan O'Neal Moses Pray Paper Moon 1974 Art Carney ** Harry Coombes Harry a Tonto James Earl Jones Rupert Marshall Claudine Jack Lemmon Hildy Johnson Na titulnej strane Walter Matthau Walter Burns Na titulnej strane Burt Reynolds Paul "Wrecking" Crewe The Longest Yard 1975 Walter Matthau * Willy Clark The Sunshine Boys Warren Beatty George Roundy Šampón George Burns Al Lewis The Sunshine Boys James Caan Billy Rose Funny Lady Peter Sellers Inšpektor Jacques Clouseau The Return of the Pink Panther 1976 Kris Kristofferson John Howard Zrodila sa hviezda Mel Brooks Mel Funn Nemý film Peter Sellers Inšpektor Jacques Clouseau Ružový panter opäť zasahuje Jack Weston Gaetano Proclo Hotel Ritz Gene Wilder George Caldwell Strieborný šíp 1977 Richard Dreyfuss ** Elliott Garfield The Goodbye Girl Woody Allen * Alvy Singer Annie Hall Mel Brooks Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke Veľká úzkosť Robert De Niro Jimmy Doyle New York, New York John Travolta * Tony Manero Horúčka sobotňajšej noci 1978 Warren Beatty * Joe Pendleton Heaven Can Wait Alan Alda George Na budúci rok v rovnakom čase Gary Busey * Buddy Holly The Buddy Holly Story Chevy Chase Detective Tony Carlson Foul Play George C. Scott Gloves Malloy/Spats Baxter Movie Movie John Travolta Danny Zuko Pomáda 1979 Peter Sellers * Chance Bol som pri tom George Hamilton Gróf Dracula Láska na prvé uhryznutie Dudley Moore George Webber 10 Burt Reynolds Phil Potter Začíname odznova Roy Scheider * Joe Gideon All That Jazz 1980 Ray Sharkey Vinnie Vacarri Manažér Neil Diamond Yussel Rabinovitch The Jazz Singer Tommy Lee Jones Doolittle Mooney Lynn Prvá dáma country music Paul Le Mat Melvin Dummar Melvin a Howard Walter Matthau Miles Kendig Hopscotch
1981 - 1990 Rok Herec Postava vo filme Názov filmu 1981 Dudley Moore * Arthur Bach Arthur Alan Alda Jack Burroughs The Four Seasons George Hamilton Don Diego Vega / Zorro Wigglesworth / Ramon Vega Zorro, the Gay Blade Steve Martin Arthur Parker Pennies from Heaven Walter Matthau Dan Snow Prvý pondelok v októbri 1982 Dustin Hoffman * Michael Dorsey ("Dorothy Michaelsová") Tootsie Peter O'Toole Alan Swann My Favorite Year Al Pacino Ivan Travalian Autor! Autor! Robert Preston Caroll 'Toddy' Todd Victor Victoria Henry Winkler Chuck Nočná šichta 1983 Michael Caine * Frank Bryant Rita Woody Allen Leonard Zelig Zelig Tom Cruise Joel Gordon Riskantné podnikanie Eddie Murphy Billy Ray "William" Valentine Výmena Mandy Patinkin Avigdor Jentl 1984 Dudley Moore Rob Salinger Micki + Maude Steve Martin Roger Cobb All Of Me Eddie Murphy Axel Foley Policajt v Beverly Hills Bill Murray Peter Venkman Krotitelia duchov Robin Williams Vladimir Ivanoff Moskva na Hudsone 1985 Jack Nicholson * Charley Partanna Česť rodiny Prizziovcov Jeff Daniels Tom Baxter/Gil Sheperd Purpurová ruža z Káhiry Griffin Dunne Paul Hackett Po úradných hodinách Michael J. Fox Marty McFly Návrat do budúcnosti James Garner * Murphy Jones Murphy's Romance 1986 Paul Hogan Krokodíl Dundee Krokodíl Dundee Matthew Broderick Ferris Bueller Voľný deň Ferrisa Buellera Jeff Daniels Charles Driggs Divoký víkend Danny DeVito Sam Stone Bezcitní ľudia Jack Lemmon Harvey Fairchild That's Life! 1987 Robin Williams * Adrian Cronauer Dobré ráno, Vietnam Nicolas Cage Ronny Cammareri Pod vplyvom splnu Danny DeVito Owen Lift Vyhoď mamu z vlaku |- | William Hurt * || Tom Grunick || Vysielame správy|- | Steve Martin || C. D. Bales || Roxana|- | Patrick Swayze || Johnny Castle || Hriešny tanec|- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1988|| style="background:#ed8;" | Tom Hanks * || style="background:#ed8;" | Josh Baskin || style="background:#ed8;" | Veľký|- | Michael Caine || Lawrence Jamieson || Špinaví, prehnití grázli|- | John Cleese || Archie Leach || Ryba menom Wanda|- | Robert De Niro || Jack Walsh || Polnočný beh|- | Bob Hoskins || Eddie Valliant || Kto obvinil králika Rogera?|- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1989|| style="background:#ed8;" | Morgan Freeman * || style="background:#ed8;" | Hoke Colburn || style="background:#ed8;" | Šofér slečny Daisy|-